The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections Order 2012

Form of postal voting statementF1...U.K.

30.—(1) This paragraph specifies the form of the postal voting statement which is to be used for the purposes of rule 25 of the PCC elections rules.

(2) Form 2 or a form to like effect is to be used at a PCC election taken alone.

F2(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) [F3Where]—

(a)the proceedings at a PCC election and another election or referendum are taken together, and

(b)the proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers at both elections are taken together,

the form of the postal voting statement which is to be used is the form of that statement which is required to be used at that other election or referendum[F4, with the addition of the appropriate voting instructions for PCC elections.]

(5) Form 4 or a form to like effect is to be used where—

(a)the proceedings at a PCC election and another election or referendum are taken together, but

(b)the proceedings the proceedings on the issue and receipt of postal ballot papers are not taken together.

(6) In this paragraph—

(a)references to a numbered form are to the form of that number which is set out in Part 4 of this Schedule;

[F5(b)the “appropriate voting instructions for PCC elections” are—

(i)where there are three or more candidates—

“Vote by putting a cross [X] in the box

In column 1 next to your first choice candidate

In column 2 next to your second choice candidate

Your first and second choices should be different.”

(ii)where there are two candidates—

“Vote for only one candidate by putting a cross [X] in the box next to your choice.”]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in Sch. 2 para. 30 heading omitted (6.4.2014) by virtue of The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/921), arts. 1(5), 17(5) (with art. 1(5))